Berengaria's Alarm for the Safety of Her Husband, Richard Coeur de Lion, Awakened by the Sight of His Girdle Offered for Sale at Rome.

About Berengaria's Alarm for the Safety of Her Husband, Richard Coeur de Lion, Awakened by the Sight of His Girdle Offered for Sale at Rome

Berengaria's Alarm is an 1850 oil painting by the British artist Charles Allston Collins. It shows Berengaria of Navarre, the wife of Richard I, alarmed when a travelling pedlar offers her husband's jewelled belt to her for sale. She realises some danger has come to him - returning from the Third Crusade he has been captured and imprisoned by Duke of Austria. The tapestry in the background echoes this with the biblical story of Joseph's brothers showing their father his coat to prove he is dead. It is also known as The Pedlar.